North Carolina Roll Call

[prw04]

I can for one tell you that Koon's deal is legit. I bought my JKU there last year. No games, no backroom shannigans as your Hendrick contact stated. Hendrick is no different than Lake Norman is. Just plain BAD. Huge dealer fees. I believe Hendrick is $700 where as LKN in $799!!!!Good luck. I would have preferred local as well being in Mooresville but they dealers locally are out of there damn minds.

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[NCSUSTATS]

Thanks for the info on the time lag.

For what it's worth, I did talk to the salesperson at Hendrick (who I really like -- she's the New Car Sales Manager) and provided her with the Koons markup, just to see if they could do anything. Basically she said that their experience with Koons is that they put people on long waiting lists, and then hard-sell them in the finance office for add-ons when they show up to pick up, and that the deal I got was basically cost to dealer after dealer prep. I'm sure there's some wiggle in there, but I wasn't going to push it.

Also, she pointed out that she would work with me and the offroad department guys on getting a good deal on the two aftermarket addons I want -- different wheels (including a trade-in for my "never driven" stock wheels when the new Jeep arrives) and LED headlights.

Honestly, that's good enough for me. I'm a contract lawyer, and believe in a Japanese style of negotiating where everyone leaves the table thinking they got something and gave something up, not scorched-earth negotiation.

Agreed... i even minored in Japanese...a long long time ago

 

[NCSUSTATS]

I can for one tell you that Koon's deal is legit. I bought my JKU there last year. No games, no backroom shannigans as your Hendrick contact stated. Hendrick is no different than Lake Norman is. Just plain BAD. Huge dealer fees. I believe Hendrick is $700 where as LKN in $799!!!!Good luck. I would have preferred local as well being in Mooresville but they dealers locally are out of there damn minds.

Hendrick Northlake Mercedes gave a pretty good no nonsense offer to me for my wife’s GLC last year...was like ‘car of the year’ nonsense and custom ordered one at couple bucks over invoice. No other merc dealer in the southeast offered anything less than msrp. Fwiw.

 

[ThirtyOne]

New member. Glad to be here. Live in Charlotte. Have only owned a Jeep for a year, and haven't taken it offroard, but would love to do Uwharrie sometime.

There is 4 Wheel Parts Performance on South Blvd. at Scaleybark. I've never been there.

Have a 2017 Wrangler Sport S, and just ordered a 2018 JLU Sport S yesterday (Sting Gray, order confirmation attached). I went through Kristin Lents at Hendrick, who I've really liked and has been super helpful. I'll tell you, I got an offer from Koons for the same car that, as an out-the-door price, was probably about $1200 less than what I'm paying Hendrick for the same car. The offer came in after I'd already agreed with Kristin (I did all this via email, sending my spec build to about 5-6 dealerships, with Koons being the only out-of-state one). To tell you the truth, given my job and with two teenage kids, etc., I personally value the local dealership over that price differential, but that's a very individual thing. (If I'd gotten the Koons offer before, I'd probably have pushed Kristin a little harder, maybe not all the way down to match it, but to make the difference about the price of a plane ticket to fly up to D.C. to pick it up at Koons and drive it back).

I'm also posting the Koons markup of my offer.

On another thread, someone said that Steve White Motors in Newton, NC provided a 5% under invoice offer on a JL. I obviously haven't back-checked that one.

They're telling me 6-8 weeks for the JLU in Sting Gray. We'll see -- I'm conservatively expecting more like 10-12.

Hey Kent. Congratulations on your new Jeep!

You should join us in the Sting-Gray Club. Got a few North Carolina residents over there.

STING GRAY Wrangler JL Club

 

[LJtoJL]

Whats up all of NC JL owners! Bought my wife a Sahara Back In January when they first hit the lot, now that more color options are available im looking to order me a Rubicon!

 

[Sting Gray Heel]

Hey Kent. Congratulations on your new Jeep!

You should join us in the Sting-Gray Club. Got a few North Carolina residents over there.

STING GRAY Wrangler JL Club

Cool. Done. Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[abecker]

Picked up my '18 JLU Sport two weeks ago. I live in Cornelius. Looking forward to taking it out to Uwharrie one day.

 

[ItsTTime]

Anyone aware of places to wheel around Raleigh? I am picking up my JL in the next week or so and would love to test it out, even on some easy trails.

 

[Killed by Death]

Anyone aware of places to wheel around Raleigh? I am picking up my JL in the next week or so and would love to test it out, even on some easy trails.

Just found this, Duke Forest might be worth looking into. Please let everyone know if you give it a go. I'd scope it out but I'm in Charlotte.
http://traveltips.usatoday.com/trails-duke-forest-nc-104300.html

 

[Tar Heel Wrangler]

Just found this, Duke Forest might be worth looking into. Please let everyone know if you give it a go. I'd scope it out but I'm in Charlotte.
http://traveltips.usatoday.com/trails-duke-forest-nc-104300.html

dook Forest is only for hiking

 

[Killed by Death]

dook Forest is only for hiking

Doh

 

[UNC Rubicon]

Anyone aware of places to wheel around Raleigh? I am picking up my JL in the next week or so and would love to test it out, even on some easy trails.

When I was at UNC, we would go wheeling down a power line road in Carborro off Smith Level road near BPW Club road. That was 14 years ago though (good lord, I'm getting old).

There were some massive holes on that road. I watched a Chevy on 40s get hydrolocked in a hole out there (you could bypass all the big holes).

Not sure what it's like now and of course it's not quite on the up and up like going to Uwharrie.

 

[Tar Heel Wrangler]

When I was at UNC, we would go wheeling down a power line road in Carborro off Smith Level road near BPW Club road. That was 14 years ago though (good lord, I'm getting old).

There were some massive holes on that road. I watched a Chevy on 40s get hydrolocked in a hole out there (you could bypass all the big holes).

Not sure what it's like now and of course it's not quite on the up and up like going to Uwharrie.

Only 14 yrs ago? I was there 27 years ago! You aren't old yet.

Looks like this might be the place you were talking about: https://www.google.com/maps/search/...9.0751699,237m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0

I try to stay away from dook whenever possible.

 

[UNC Rubicon]

Only 14 yrs ago? I was there 27 years ago! You aren't old yet.

Looks like this might be the place you were talking about: https://www.google.com/maps/search/...9.0751699,237m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0

I try to stay away from dook whenever possible.

That's the place. Wasn't much more than a spot to get a little mud on the tires but it scratched our itch more often than not.

I don't blame you about dook. I stay away from there too. I'm sure the boys over at State have a place or two they go.

 

[Sting Gray Heel]

Only 14 yrs ago? I was there 27 years ago! You aren't old yet.

Looks like this might be the place you were talking about: https://www.google.com/maps/search/...9.0751699,237m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0

I try to stay away from dook whenever possible.

Always enjoy people who are older than I am . . . but you're not one of them.

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